title: [Possibilities and limitations of genetic family counseling (author's transl)].
abstract: Genetic family counseling has gained increasing importance in Germany in recent years, although the material and in particular the personnel requirements are lacking to a considerable extent. It requires careful training and a high sense of responsibility. Wrong advice is worse than none. Besides the "classical" genetic family counseling--before founding a family, after the birth of a sick child, disease in the family, childlessness (eg frequent abortions), elderly parents, particularly mothers, before entering marriage with a blood relation--the individual genetic prognosis and prophylaxis (genetic individual prognosis) should be included more extensively in the "genetic prevention"--which is more than "just" a family counseling. This is particularly true of many frequently polygenic multifactorially induced diseases in general and internal medicine.
mesh_terms: D002869:Chromosome Aberrations / Q000235:genetics; D025063:Chromosome Disorders; D000013:Congenital Abnormalities / Q000235:genetics; D005260:Female; D005799:Genes, Dominant; D005808:Genes, Recessive; D005817:Genetic Counseling; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010375:Pedigree; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000175:diagnosis; D011296:Prenatal Diagnosis; D011379:Prognosis
vernacular_title: Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der genetischen Familienberatung.